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Yeah. Whenever the wife and I visit her family I have a hard time. I have a couple of EDC knives that I shuffle through and I spend a lot of the time not taking one and being jittery all day depending on where we go due to not understanding their laws.

This didn't warrant a post in the thread, but: a switch blade is a blade that is operated by a button or switch that leads the the knife opening completely unassisted (or shooting out as some turds have put it) by the user outside of the button press. A spring assisted knife still requires that the user guide the blade open before it locks into place. 1 = super fast the other = pretty quick

If I remember, they also have the one hand operated knife rule in Baltimore (separate from the state law, which is a lot like the knife laws here in MN where they're pretty much run by the county to distinguish lengths that are legal) which I guess means spring assisted. All knives are one handed, so whatever.

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My public defender’s office handles a lot of interesting cases. One of the most notable to come out of my office in recent years was Maryland v. King, which involved a challenge to a state law that permits the police to obtain a DNA sample of all people arrested for a crime, before any conviction and without the need for any belief that the DNA was relevant to the crime the arrestee was detained for. DNA sampling was thus just another routine booking procedure like fingerprinting, but DNA tests

[I wanted to rant on this issue, but I figured EoEO might be tired of my anti-Obama speeches. Though it is his fault for continuing to give me so much material. ]

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